Filler for packing-cases.



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FILLER FOR PACKING CASES.

(Application filed Mar. 30, 1901.)

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RAPHAEL S. DOLING, OF SNVAYZEE, INDIANA.

FlLLER FOR PACKING=CASES.

SPEGIFIGATIQN part ci Letters Application ilei March S0, 1901.

To all whom may conceive:

Be it known that I, RAPHAEL S, DOLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Swayzee, county of Grant, State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Fillers for Packing-Cases; and l declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it pertains to inakeand use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, j which form a part of this specilication.

This invention relates to fillers forpackingcases, and has for its object an improved filler adapted to be used in the packing of glassware.

The purpose which is to be accomplished by using the iiller which forms the subject of this invention is to save the glassware which. is to be packed and hold the separate pieces so that they continue outcf contact with one another and cannot be shaken, jarred, or forced into contact the one with another, and this is done by using simple straight strips of material, most of which are single and unattached to other pieces, but which are finally all locked together by the last piece which is inserted or by the last parts which are inserted, and the last parts are themselves locked and held in place by the cover of the packing-case. The packing-filler being made of separate pieces of thin strips is itself cheap in the first instance, because it requires very little labor to construct, the main labor being the assembling of the parts in the case at thetirne of final use, and it reqnires little material, because of its form of construction. Nevertheless it provides part ing-pieees or lling-strips which protect both ends of the article of glassware, and therefore hold the glass article rmly in position.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a case filled with jars and having the rillingpieees in position. Fig. 2 is a perspective of a case with parts broken away, and it shows in perspective the iilling-pieces in the pesition they occupy in the case.

A indicates the packing-case, which is' a wooden box of rectangular form made of a size to hold a number of articles to be packed therein, which are arranged in the casein lBS/.L'De'lt NQ). 678,547, dated July" 16, 1901.

Serial No. 53,598. (Nn modem tween each row and the row succeeding itin one direction-say lengthwise the case-I place narrow strips l, l, and l1 of thin wood or analogous material. Across these and above them I place similar narrow strips of thin wood 2 2, and these are placed between each row and the succeeding row crosswise Vthe case, and their lower edges rest on the lower strips l, l, and ll. Across and above the strips 2 and 2a I place a cross-strip 3. In ordinary packingcases a single cross-strip 3 is sufficient. The strips thus far placed in the case are laid in loosely. They are cut of a length to reach substantially across -from one side to the other or from one end to the other of the packing-case and may be quite thin and quite narrow. For an ordinary case to hold twelve fruit-jars they need not be over one-eighth of an inch thick and one inch wide, except that the strip 3 ishould be wider and should reach nearly to the neck part of the jars to engage or nearly engage with the next part to be inserted. Above the strips thus inserted is placed a locking-frame which also is made from narrow thin strips of material crossing each other and secured together. The strips are spaced so that the longitudinal strips t and la will engage closely against the necks of the jars below the top thereof and preferably under an overhanging top, if the jars have overhanging tops, and they should be wide enough to extend from one article to the adjacent article. The cross-strips 5 and 5f are also thin and narrow strips engaging in like manner between the articles that are to be packed underneath overhanging projections. A thick strip G, having a thickness sufficient to engage closely against the cover, is secured to the cross-frarne made of the strips 4: e and 5 5a. There is thus constituted a connected framework to be used at the top of the packing case Vof which the pieces are arranged to rest on the shoulder part of the articles to be packed and are arranged to be crowded against the shoulder part by the engagement between the cover and the thick cross-bar 6. This completes the filling, which is easily inserted and easily removed and which is all held in place by the cover. The nal framework made of strips 4;, e, 5, 5', and 6 is held in placewith considerable security and against IOO VIo

any accidental removal by the engagement of the several pieces 4,4, 5, and 5f1 under the overhanging part of the articles to be packed, and the frame itselt` is sprung into its position forcibly when this part is inserted and must be forcibly sprung or bent to remove it.

It is not necessary nor, indeed, is it desirable that the thick stri por the frame to which the thick strip is attached should engage closely against the strip 3.l It is desirable that there should be some little space over the strip 3, so that when the cover of the case is placed in position the middle part of the frame will spring down slightly under the thick piece 6. The frame, however, prevents the piece 3 from rising to any great distance, and because of the engagement between the strip 3 and the strips 2 and 2n, these latter strips and the strips 1,11, and lb under them are all prevented from any great freedom of movement, and are kept in substantially the place in which they are first located, and while the strip 6 is considered as a locking mechanism it is not meant by that expression that it shall be understood that the pieces are entirely immovable, but that they shall be held in substantially the places in which they are first located and shall not rise upward so far as to allow an article in any one of the several compartments to be moved far enough to strike against an article in an adjoining compartment. l

What I claim is- 1. In combination with a packing-case, a

iiller consisting of narrow strips laid across the case and resting on the bottom thereof, other strips laid across the first strips and resting thereon, a strip laid acrossthe second row and reaching upward in close proximity to a binding-frame, a binding-frame made from thin flat strips crossed and secured together and arrangedto rest iatwise between the necks and on the shoulders of the packed articles, across-strip secured to' the frame on the upper side thereof and of a thickness to bear against the cover of the packing-case, substantially as described.

2. A filler for packing-cases, comprising in combination thin and narrow strips arranged to separate the packed articles at the bottom thereof, a frame arranged to engage over the shoulders of the packed articles, a thick strip arranged over the frame engaging against both the frame and the cover of the packingcase, and means interposed between the frame and the lower strips arranged to prevent the lower strips from escaping upward, substantially as described.

3. A filler for packing-cases, comprising in combination thinl and narrow strips arranged to separate the packed articles at the bottom thereof, a frame of thin flat strips crossed and secured together adapted to be sprung forcibly into position between the jar-necks and over thev shoulders of the jars, a thick strip arranged over the frame to engage against both the frame and the cover, and arranged to spring the frame slightly down- Ward and a locking-strip interposed between the upper frame and the lower binding-strips and adapted to hold the binding-strips in place, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

` RAPHAEL S. DOLING. Witnesses:

WILLIAM J. LARKIN,

CHARLES W. HENDERSON. 

